While violently feuding with the Dojin-kai, the Kyushu Seido-kai has caused deaths among several innocent civilians as well as numerous yakuza members,[4] and because of that, despite being a relatively recently established group, the Kyushu Seido-kai has been a designated yakuza group since 2008.[5]

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The Kyushu Seido-kai launched in 2006 as the Dojin-kai's splinter group[6] led by the Omuta-based Murakami-ikka clan,[5] after the long-time Dojin-kai boss Seijiro Matsuo announced his resignation, sparking a war of succession.[7] In 2007 a Dojin-kai member attempted to murder a Seido-kai member, but ended up killing an innocent bystander.[8] The Kyushu Seido-kai ended up receiving official registration as a designated yakuza group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law on February 28, 2008.[9]

Since 2011, the Seido-kai's feud with the Dojin-kai has reportedly been escalating,[10] and many Seido members have been killed by the Dojin-kai; two Seido seniors were killed by alleged Dojin-kai's grenades in Omuta (April),[11] one Seido member was stabbed to death in Ogi, Saga (April),[12] and one Seido senior was shot to death in Imari, Saga (April).[13]

In 2008, the Kudo-kai's third-generation president Hideo Mizoshita died and his funeral was attended by many yakuza magnates representing their respective syndicates from all over the country. The Seido-kai was the only designated yakuza syndicate absent from this event.[15]

The second president Namikawa has allegedly maintained a close relationship with Kunio Inoue. Inoue is the president of the fourth-generation Yamaken-gumi, an affiliate of the largest-known Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate.[16]

The Kyushu Seido-kai's illegal activities have allegedly included loansharking and methamphetaminetrafficking.[17] The Seido-kai was allegedly the largest drug trading division of the Dojin-kai, as rumored by some local Omuta in-the-know men, hence the informal dub name of the "Seido Pharmacy". Even the 55-year-old founding president Murakami was arrested for methamphetamine possession.[1]

In June 2013, Kyushu Seido-kai announced the end of its gang war with Dojin-kai as well as its dissolution.[18]